"Disruption began at around 11.20am UK time (7.20am EST) and was initially described as an "internal service degradation" which impacted limited services. It's around then that web users began reporting serious difficulties accessing a host of popular websites, services, and platforms. OpenAI's popular chatbot, ChatGPT, was among the services affected by the incident, along with social media site X and creative design platform Canva. Online games such as League of Legends and Valorant were also impacted by the incident."
"In a detailing the incident, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said the company initially suspected that the source of the outage was due to a "hyper-scale" distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. However, this was quickly dismissed. Instead, Prince revealed the incident was "triggered by a change to one of our data systems' permissions". While this appears rather vague, the root cause here lay with the company's Bot Management system, which is used to p"
A major Cloudflare outage began around 11:20am UK time (7:20am EST), causing widespread website and service access failures. The outage affected numerous popular services including ChatGPT, X, Canva, League of Legends, and Valorant, and temporarily brought down Downdetector. Cloudflare initially suspected a "hyper-scale" DDoS attack but quickly dismissed that explanation. The incident was instead triggered by a change to a data system's permissions within Cloudflare. The root cause involved the company's Bot Management system. Services have since been restored, but the outage likely disrupted operations across many enterprises.
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